Recipes

Breakfast/ Brunch

Delicious scones

Perfect waffles

‘Something’s gotta give’ pancakes

Eggs and soldiers

Eggs Benedict

English muffins

Cheese & tarragon omelette

Scones & melon jam

Melon jam

Starters

Carciofi alla Giudia (artichokes Jewish style)

Gougères

Bouchée à la Reine

Icelandic fish soup

Gazpacho with garlic cream

Mint and tuna salad

Old-fashioned French onion soup with Comté tartines

Escargots aux cèpes

Escargots à la Bourguignonne

Escargots à la Bordelaise

Chestnut soup with tapioca pearls

Cabbage salad

Main courses

Turkey rolls with mustard & cream

Tandoori chicken

Confit de canard

Scotch eggs

Chicken and ham pie

Chili con carne

Frank Sinatra meatballs

Roast chicken with rosemary, lemon and thyme

Galettes

Quiche Lorraine

Steak, mushroom and Guinness pie

Magrets de canard with peaches and potato cake

Salade Niçoise

Fish cakes

‘Crying tiger’ char-grilled beef

 

Broccoli pasta

Sophia Loren’s meatballs

Veal liver with caramelized shallots and balsamic vinegar

Gratin Dauphinois & cigalines

Steak & Béarnaise sauce

Duck confit parmentier

Ratatouille

Osso busso ‘tout nu’

Flammekueche

Brioche Lyonnaise & warm potato salad

Couscous

Aïoli & Cod

Pirate chicken

Tomate Provençales

Red cabbage, onion and walnut tart

Pastilla with chicken and almonds

Black pig flank and apple sauce

Cockles and mussels

Spider crab cakes

Cannelés with black pig, foie gras and vine leaf

Ravioles de Langoustines et sauce vierge

Oxtail macaroni and cheese

Poulet au vinaigre (vinegar chicken) and braised butter endives

Tomato tart with tarragon mustard

Lucky pumpkin soup

Pumpkin gnocchi with Saint-Nectaire sauce

Pan-fried foie gras with golden rosé apples (flambés with cognac) on toast

Pan-fried foie-gras with figs and Chasselas grapes

Pan-fried foie gras with poached egg and Périgueux sauce

Roasted foie gras with Chasselas grapes and cognac

Roast quails with vine leaves

Black pudding

Roast mustard Coquelet & Squash

Roast lamb with thyme cream

Buckwheat galette with squash and roquefort

Roast beef

Rigatoni with cèpes à la Bordelaise

Side dishes

Pilau rice

Raita

Salade Piémontaise

Potato cake with garlic and parsley

Ginger rice

Vegetable tian

Yorkshire pudding

Sauces

Dolly’s marinara sauce

Cakes

Chocolate cake à la crème de marron

Cake pops

Italian pear cake

Carrot cake with vanilla cream cheese frosting

Garden cake

Persian love cake

Madeleines

Baba au rhum

Joséphine ruffle cake

Saint Honoré

Kouglof

Merveilles

Lemon meringue cake

Far Breton

Mathieu’s fruit cake

Summer peach and vervain tart

Paris-Brest

Quince tarte tatin

Kouign Aman

Plum & Fig meringue tart

Brioche à la fleur d’oranger

Calvados apple tart

Desserts

Eton mess

Coconut tapioca pudding

Marie-Antoinette’s secrets

Pink praline tart & île flottante

Morrocan orange salad

Summer trifle

Old-fashioned chocolate mousse with salted butter caramel chunks

Riz au lait by Jean-Luc Rocha

Summer gems

Chocolate swirl meringues

Red velvet plums with pain perdu

Pomegranate meringues

Crème caramel

Bread & butter pudding

Cookies

Chewy chocolate chunk cookie

Home-made ‘Oreo’ cookies

Black & white sablés – by Jean-Luc Rocha

Drinks

Bellflower ice-cubes